Description

Welcome to the Happy Days by Eric Chou Taiwan / Narrative / 1:45 HAPPY DAYS is a hot springs hotel in Taipei, the Xinbeitou area. In this area, people can see many historical buildings and elements which are full of Japanese heritage due to the Japanese colonization before world war two (WWII). HAPPY DAYS hotel was also founded around 1970s by the protagonist: Fan-Ju’s grandmother, Shu-Min, who has run the hotel for decades. However, "Welcome to the HAPPY DAYS," a once vibrant slogan, is nowadays the last and feeble greeting of this old hotel that still remains. Unfortunately, Grandma Shu-Min breaks her legs and is hospitalized, nobody, not even her granddaughter FanJu can run this hotel and bring it back to life. Not until a mysterious young American: Allen, who shows up at the door one day and volunteers to work at the hotel. Can a Taiwanese girl and a foreigner revive HAPPY DAYS? Can they face the challenges of running a hotel and while discovering Grandma Shu-Min’s secret hidden in the hotel? With a touch of sulfur, love and friendship between Allen and FanJu will blossom and things are going to change. Welcome to the HAPPY DAYS!

Venue Details
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema
807 V Street, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
DC Asian Pacific American Film was established to be the beacon of creative output of Asian and Asian American media arts through community outreach.The mission of the DC APA Film Festival is to bring attention to the creative output from APA communities and encourage the artistic development of APA films, media, and creative output in the greater Washington DC metropolitan region as well as the across the country.